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Re: st: Incorporating variable labels into the variable name


From   "Tim Wade" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Incorporating variable labels into the variable name
Date   Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:49:08 -0400

Sorry I realize now this is not quite right since the "d" function is
interpreting the label as May 9 2007.

On 9/11/07, Tim Wade <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dan, does something like this work?
>
> . input v1 v2 v3 v4 v5
>
>            v1         v2         v3         v4         v5
>  1. 1 2 3 4 5
>  2. end
>
> . label var v1 "9/5/2007"
>
> . label var v2 "9/4/2007"
>
> . label var v3 "9/6/2007"
>
> . label var v4 "9/7/2007"
>
> . label var v5 "9/8/2007"
>
> . foreach var of varlist v1-v5 {
>  2. local lab`var': variable label `var'
>  3. local lab`var'=d(`lab`var'')
>  4. local lab`var': display %d `lab`var''
>  5. rename `var'  rev_`lab`var''
>  6. }
>
> . desc
>
> Contains data
>  obs:             1
>  vars:             5
>  size:            24 (99.9% of memory free)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              storage  display     value
> variable name   type   format      label      variable label
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> rev_09may2007   float  %9.0g                  9/5/2007
> rev_09apr2007   float  %9.0g                  9/4/2007
> rev_09jun2007   float  %9.0g                  9/6/2007
> rev_09jul2007   float  %9.0g                  9/7/2007
> rev_09aug2007   float  %9.0g                  9/8/2007
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sorted by:
>     Note:  dataset has changed since last saved
>
> Hope this helps, Tim
>
>
> On 9/7/07, Rodriguez, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have a comma-delimited datafile that I need to process on a daily basis
> > within Stata where I need to convert the labels for about 200 columns into
> > variable names. The file looks like the following:
> >
> > acct    name    9/5/2007        9/4/2007        8/31/2007
> > 84J     Jacky   1       2       -1
> > B88     Mike    -2      3       -1
> > B93     Mike    4       5       2
> >
> >
> > When I import this file into Stata I get:
> >
> > acct            name    v18     v19     v20
> > 84J             Jacky   1       2       -1
> > B88             Mike    0       0       0
> > B93             Mike    0       0       0
> >
> > . desc
> >
> > Contains data
> >   obs:         1,495
> >  vars:           190
> >  size:     1,728,220 (83.5% of memory free)
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >               storage  display     value
> > variable name   type   format      label      variable label
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > acct            str8   %9s                    Trading Acct
> > name            str53  %53s                   Trader
> > v18             float  %9.0g                  9/5/2007
> > v19             float  %9.0g                  9/4/2007
> > v20             float  %9.0g                  8/31/2007
> > v21             float  %9.0g                  8/30/2007
> > v22             float  %9.0g                  8/29/2007
> > v23             float  %9.0g                  8/28/2007
> > v24             float  %9.0g                  8/27/2007
> > v25             float  %9.0g                  8/24/2007
> > v26             float  %9.0g                  8/23/2007
> > v27             float  %9.0g                  8/22/2007
> > v28             float  %9.0g                  8/21/2007
> > v29             float  %9.0g                  8/20/2007
> >
> > How can I change the variable names to rev_Sep5_2007, rev_Sep4_2007,
> > rev_Aug31_2007, etc.?
> >
> > I need to apply a reshape command to facilitate further analysis.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Dan Rodriguez
> >
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